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Remote Usage

4.1 Prerequisite

The IKVM-1000 features an embedded operating system and applications offering a variety of standardized interfaces. This chapter will describe both these interfaces, and the way to use them in a more detailed manner. The interfaces are accessed using the TCP/IP protocol family, thus they can be accessed using the built-in Ethernet port.

The following interfaces are supported:

HTTP/HTTPS

The IKVM-1000 can be entirely managed using a standard web browser. You can access the IKVM-1000 using the insecure HTTP protocol, or using the encrypted HTTPS protocol. Whenever possible, use HTTPS.

Telnet

A standard Telnet client can be used to access an arbitrary device connected to the IKVM-1000's serial port via a terminal mode.

The primary interface of the IKVM-1000 is the HTTP interface. This is covered extensively in this chapter. Other interfaces are addressed in subtopics.

In order to use the Remote Console window of your managed host system, the browser has to come with a Java Runtime Environment version 1.1 or higher. If the browser has no Java support (such as on a small handheld device), you are still able to maintain your remote host system using the administration forms displayed by the browser itself.

Important: We recommend installing a Sun JVM 1.4.

For an insecure connection to the IKVM-1000, we can recommend the following browsers:

•Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP

•Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Mozilla 1.6 on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux and other UNIX-like Operating Systems

In order to access the remote host system using a securely encrypted connection, you need a browser that supports the HTTPS protocol. Strong security is only

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